| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct: depart, deviate, diverge, stray, swerve, veer. Archaic : err. See APPROACH, CORRECT. 2. To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking: deviate, divagate, diverge, ramble, stray, wander. Idioms: go off at (or on) a tangent. See APPROACH.
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